SUTENT(R) Cost Effective Advantage Predicted In Treating Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Results from an international study presented today at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) predict that sunitinib (SUTENT®) is cost effective as a first-line therapy for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNew York Times Examines Concerns About Health Care Issues In U.S. Amidst Energy, Economy Worries Health care as an election issue "seem[s] to vacillate in importance by the day, the place and the audience" and has been somewhat "absorbed" by "broader anxiety over the economy" and "urgency of high-cost gasoline and the housing crisis," the New York Times reports.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comGenital Cutting Prevalence In Ethiopia Decreasing, Survey Finds The prevalence of female genital cutting -- also referred to as female genital mutilation and female circumcision -- has decreased in Ethiopia from 61% of girls and women in 1997 to 46% in 2007, according to a 2007 survey by the Ethiopian National Committee on Traditional Practices, or EGLDAM, IRIN News reports.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCenter For Patients With Special Needs Opens At The University Of Pittsburgh School Of Dental Medicine In an effort to provide better access to oral
health for patients with disabilities and to train the next generation of dental practitioners to care for them, the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental
Medicine today opened the Center for Patients with Special Needs.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comClues To Rapid Cycling Bipolar Disease German researchers have devised a way to follow gene expression over time in a 64-year-old woman who developed rapid-cycling bipolar illness in her mid-40s. Over a 16-year period, the woman logged in 108 cycles in her diary. Rapid-cycling bipolar illness is characterized by four or more episodes of depression and/or mania in a given year.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comSerum Androgen Normalization Kinetics & Factors Linked To Testosterone Reserve After Limited Androgen Deprivation Therapy UroToday.com - How rapidly serum androgen levels fall after androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) and recover between cycles for patients with prostate cancer (CaP) undergoing intermittent androgen suppression (IAS) is not well studied. Yet the information has clinical utility for both patient quality of life and cancer management. In the online version of the Journal of Urology, Dr.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comEmerging Therapies, Including Bristol-Myers Squibb/Medarex's Ipilimumab, Will Drive Growth In The Malignant Melanoma Drug Market Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and
healthcare issues, finds that the malignant melanoma drug market, driven by the launch of emerging agents, will experience robust annual 12 percent growth through 2012 in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Japan.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNew Medications For Schizophrenia - Chemical & Engineering News New scientific insights into schizophrenia are pointing toward new
drugs that offer hope for millions of individuals with the disease - the most serious form of mental illness, according to an article scheduled for the Sept. 15 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, ACS' weekly newsmagazine. Schizophrenia affects about 25 million people, or about one percent of adults, worldwide.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comStudy Opens Way For Later Treatment Of Acute Stroke The time span in which treatment should be given for acute ischaemic stroke - i.e. stroke caused by a clot or other obstruction to the blood supply - can be lengthened. This according to a study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet, the results of which can bring about more effective and safer treatments for stroke sufferers.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comAetna Reminds Members Affected By Hurricane Ike Where To Call For Help Aetna (NYSE: AET) is making it easier for members impacted by the flooding and destruction brought on by Hurricane Ike to refill
prescriptions and access employee assistance and behavioral
health programs.
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